Posted: 9/3/15 at 9:15am
A Little Priest
Posted: 9/3/15 at 9:38am
Greatest? Who am I to say. Favorite? I can make a more confident selection: "Glamorous Life" (ideally as sung by Audra Mac!)
Posted: 9/3/15 at 9:43am
Greatest?, I'm not sure. Comedy Tonight is pretty magnificent. The most moving for me is "Not while I'm around"
Posted: 9/3/15 at 9:54am
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:03am
Kad, what song is a joy to sing? whos robbie?
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:04am
Kad,
He hasn't pointed it out to me! Now I'm dying to know! Someone once joked that I should do a one-man version of WEEKEND at Sondheim Unplugged. I've given consideration, but damn...it's like climbing Everest.
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:05am
oh i completely missed the first page of this thread!
I like Im Still Here
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:07am
A Weekend in the Country is too much for me. so much drama. Not even operas are that crazy
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:25am
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:45am
<<< My obvious answer, but also my heartfelt answer.
I am hiding in a tree.
I'm a fragment of the day.
If I weren't, who's to say
Things would happen here the way
That they happened here?
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:47am
I actually thought of you when I saw this thread, Tree2.
Someone in a Tree is a brilliant piece on so many levels.
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:54am
^ :).
Thanks, Tazber. You and your adorable kittens have always had great taste :).
Posted: 9/3/15 at 10:55am
"Beautiful" – Sunday in the Park With George
re: so much drama. Not even operas are that crazy. This, from Philly "I'm leaving the boards!" pinto.
Updated On: 9/4/15 at 10:55 AM
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:10am
I'm not sure what "greatest" means...most favorite? most effective? most influential? most sophisticated musically or lyrically or both?
But I would have to give the "greatest" title to "All Things Bright and Beautiful," the deleted song from Follies that became the haunting melody we all know from the Follies Prologue. Here it is, on the Paper Mill recording, such by Donna McKechnie and Laurence Guittard:
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:14am
^ I ALMOST went with that. Seriously. But I decided I couldn't in good conscience give it to a cut song (hence my leaving Uptown/Downtown out of consideration even though it's contains what may well be my favorite Sondheim lyric.)
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:17am
Ha! Uptown/Downtown was also one of my choices at first too.
I also decided not to go with a trunk song though.
It's a brilliant song.
Updated On: 9/3/15 at 11:17 AM
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:32am
Someone recently tried to tell me that my new club act should be only cut songs from FOLLIES.
My Foxtrot would be definitive.
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:34am
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE has meant more to me that any other SONDHEIM...
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:37am
Move On. It's one of those rare songs that can reduce me to tears every time I hear it, no matter the setting. Just the other day I was on the subway when it came on my ipod and Jenna Russell had me hiding my tears from the other riders. It's allergies, I swear!
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:42am
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:44am
Robbie what is your act? who are you?
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:45am
Oh, but yes, Kad. And then our COUNTRY HOUSE will be...extreme.
Posted: 9/3/15 at 12:47pm
^ Finally, that musical version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? we've all been waiting for!
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